Former India player turned veteran commentator Aakash Chopra has expressed disappointment about Rishabh Pant’s poor form with the bat in the Lucknow Super Giants’ (LSG) IPL 2025 match against the Punjab Kings (PBKS). He shared that the LSG captain hit a delivery from Glenn Maxwell straight down to Yuzendra Chahal at short fine leg as well. However, Pant managed only 2 runs off 5 deliveries.
While talking about LSG’s batting in a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra,’ he said, “Abdul Samad, Ayush Badnoi and Nicholas Pooran played decently, and Aiden Markram also played decently for some time, but the runs didn’t come from Rishabh Pant’s bat once again. It was an ordinary ball. It was a half-tracker. He pulled it and the catch went to Yuzi Chahal’s hands behind the wickets.”
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“Aiden Markram was batting well. He played a few good shots, but then he also got out. After that, Nicholas Pooran is the lone guy. Let’s be honest, he is carrying the entire team on his shoulders. He is in that kind of form. The Orange Cap is on his head, and he is batting that well too. He played with an excellent mix of aggression and caution,” he again shared.
However, Aakash Chopra applauded Yuzendra Chahal for trapping Nicholas Pooran in his web of tricks in the Punjab Kings’ IPL 2025 match
against the Lucknow Super Giants as well.
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“He (Pooran) fell prey to Yuzi Chahal in the end. It’s an attribute of Yuzi Chahal that he doesn’t bowl the ball in one line. He either bowls very wide or towards the legs. He is a maverick. He is a magician. It seems like a string is tied to the ball, that it would go in or out with a string. The ball becomes like a puppet. Ayush Badnoi batted well for sure. He hit one or two excellent shots over cover. I think he hit Lockie Ferguson over cover, that was beautiful. Abdul Samad also hit a few sixes, but the runs weren’t enough,” Aakash Chopra concluded.
